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21) The blind side
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Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
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In 1947, no African American player can play at a southern school; in return, the opposing team benches a player of "equal talent." This historical fiction picture book frames a turbulent time in the civil rights era with the clever use of a football play to show race relations and teamwork. Inspired by a true story, capturing a historic defense against the Jim Crow laws of the South.
23) Water boy
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A football coach allows an oddball mama's boy to play in a college team. It exposes a talent for tackling that transforms Bobby from a meek waterboy to the hardest hitter ever to roam the gridiron.
24) Lost in Florence
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A heart-broken ex-college football star gets deeply involved with a dangerous Florentine sport and an alluring local woman.
25) The longest yard
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A sadistic warden would make any sacrifice to push his prison guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.
26) Varsity blues
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A backup quarterback for the high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
27) Leatherheads
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Dodge Connolly is a charming, brash football hero. He is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his team. Dodge hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention. Added to the team is Carter Rutherford, America's favorite son. Carter has dashing good...
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¿Te gusta jugar o ver fútbol? En este título en español, las fotografías de color atraen a los lectores a medida que aprenden los fundamentos del deporte, y un diagrama claro les ayuda a identificar las partes del campo de fútbol. Las preguntas de pensamiento crítico y un glosario de fotos ayudan a desarrollar habilidades de aprendizaje de no ficción. Touchdown! Do you like to play or watch football? In this Spanish-language title, full-color...
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A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
31) My all American
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The story of University of Texas college football star Freddie Steinmark, who lost his life to bone cancer after a promising start with the Longhorns, recounting the team's legendary win that marked his final game.
32) Brian Banks
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The story of Brian Banks, an American football player, who was falsely accused of rape and spent almost six years in prison.
33) Learning
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Bailey Flanigan pursues her dream of becoming an actress and a dancer in New York, while Cody Coleman coaches a small high school football team back home, and as their relationship becomes strained due to the physical distance, they find their faith in God and one another further tested in the face of tragedy.
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"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion...
36) Woodlawn
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In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
37) Heaven can wait
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A recently deceased professional quarterback has his body prematurely taken by an anxious angel and comes back to life in the body of a murdered millionaire.
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"At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a happy, popular high school junior--and a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a linebacker. But before his seventeenth birthday, he was in jail, awaiting trial on charges of a heinous sexual assault he did not commit. As a young black man accused of rape, he faced almost certain conviction. Despite being innocent, Brian took a plea and was sentenced as an adult to six...
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Super Bowl Champion and two-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor. One of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, he is also a fearless activist, grassroots philanthropist, and organizer. Written with award-winning sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable is a sports book for our times, a sports memoir and manifesto as hilarious as...
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Former NFL wife Cyndy Feasel tells the tragic story of her family's journey into chaos and darkness resulting from the damage her husband suffered due to football-related concussions and head trauma--and the faith that saved her. "If I'd only known what I loved the most would end up killing me and taking away everything I loved, I would have never done it."--Grant Feasel. Grant Feasel spent ten years in the NFL, playing 117 games as a center and a...
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